Alex Tabarrok Quotes

The obsessive focus on a college degree has served neither taxpayers nor students well. Only 35 percent of students starting a four-year degree program will graduate within four years, and less than 60 percent will graduate within six years. Students who haven't graduated within six years probably never will.

Alex Tabarrok

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FocusCollegeWillNeverStarting

I had an instinct before and maybe now I don't have that instinct as much as knowing what to do, what shots to hit, where to place the ball, things like that.

Jennifer Capriati

PlaceNowKnowingBallThingsWhere

I guess I just tend to feel at home wherever I go.

Andy Serkis

HomeFeelGoWhereverJustGuess

From the takeover of Detroit and the failed stimulus packages to the enactment of Obamacare, the president and congressional Democrats chose to use Americas economic crisis as an excuse to expand government rather than as an opportunity to responsibly shrink it.

Jeb Hensarling

OpportunityGovernmentCrisisDetroit

I'm proud of my life.

Minnie Driver

LifeProudMy Life

Readers tell me that my novels are filled with significant mothers. Do I realize this? Do I do it on purpose? The truth is, I don't. I think of myself as a writer of family stories. I write more often than not from a male point of view, and I usually begin by focusing on siblings, spouses, even fathers, before I think about the mothers.

Julia Glass

FamilyTruthMyselfPurposeMeView

I never studied writing, but I'd always been a reader and had a secret fantasy about being a writer.

Jon Krakauer

WritingFantasyNeverSecretAlways

I'm a married man. If I want sex at this particular point in my life, I go home for it.

Davy Jones

LifeHomeManMy LifeSexWant

If there's a new HBO series, you know there's going to be a certain level of storytelling mastery - that you can trust it.

Chris Milk

TrustYouNewKnowStorytellingHBO

In the last several years, I have been troubled by the right shift of the Republican party too far to the right.

Colin Powell

PartyRightRepublicanYearsLast

Because people are very interested in my poetry, in what I say.

Compay Segundo

PoetryPeopleSayBecauseInterested

If I was working nine to five, acting would be my hobby... I always feel like maybe I should do an Open University degree. But I'm never going to.

Claire Foy

FeelHobbyActingNeverOpenDegree

Every time I slip into the ocean, it's like going home.

Sylvia Earle

HomeTimeOceanGoing HomeGoing

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